WSB SPONSORS:

What the Guardian One helicopter was helping with

That was indeed Guardian One over West Seattle (mostly The Junction) for a while this past half-hour. Per scanner-monitored discussion, they happened to be in the area when they heard a Seattle Police search and jumped in to help out. The call was originally about a woman possibly at risk of self-harm. They didn’t spot anyone and flew on eastward out of the area.

Thanks for the kind words. Somebody who moved from Seattle to LA actually mentioned on Twitter one night that she wished someone were there to tell her what the chopper was doing. I googled and found a number citizens allegedly could call down there to find out. We sometimes think of second-lining our business cards “if you’re wondering what that is up in the sky, call us.”

I still think its weird that everyone finds helicopter noise pollution “normal”. I seriously think they use WS for practice and 75% of their fly overs are just because they feel like flying around and wasting buttloads of money because they can.

“Group of partying teens” per Guardian One via Twitter. They gave an address of 56th/Oregon, which I suspect is actually around Me-Kwa-Mooks, where we almost ran into a group that was running back and forth in the street a little earlier. Sorry, we were away from the keyboard checking on something else.